Chapter Summaries

Yang Tian infiltrated an Evil Soul Master operation in the forest and secretly killed squad after squad before the alarm gathered the survivors. The Evil Soul Masters realized more than half their number had vanished, while the Blood-Colored Cloaked Person remained motionless at the center of the clearing.

• Yang Tian fused the stolen Red Lotus Karma Fire into his martial soul and went to investigate the Evil Soul Masters’ forest operation.
• Yang Tian concealed himself as a Black-Clothed Man brought a ten-thousand-year soul beast corpse to the clearing, where a Blood-Colored Cloaked Person gathered crimson energy through a device.
• Yang Tian secretly hunted Evil Soul Masters for over two hours, killing six squads while assessing the remaining threat.
• After Yang Tian killed a Soul Sage and five other Evil Soul Masters, two Soul Emperors escaped and sounded an alarm.
• A black-clothed Soul Sage gathered the Evil Soul Masters near the clearing, and they discovered that more than half their number were missing.

Yang Tian attacked the Evil Soul Masters in Starfall Forest, focusing first on killing the Soul Kings before powering up to face the Soul Emperors. Meanwhile, Xu Youyou, Xu Xiaoxiao, Lin Zhiling, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu waited behind the barrier, worried for him and hoping to fight by his side someday.

• Yang Tian ambushed the Evil Soul Masters and used the Tiangang Disha Sword Formation to target the Soul Kings while six Soul Saints guarded the Blood-Colored Cloaked Person.
• Yang Tian killed the Soul Kings, then unleashed Amaterasu as the Soul Saints ordered thirteen Soul Emperors to attack him together.
• Yang Tian activated his second, third, and fourth soul skills, greatly raising his strength as he prepared to face the Soul Emperors.
• Xu Youyou and Xu Xiaoxiao woke inside the barrier and learned from Lin Zhiling, Shui Bing'er, and Huo Wu that Yang Tian had gone to confront the Evil Soul Masters.
• Huo Wu declared that she believed Yang Tian would return, while Lin Zhiling teased her and voiced her wish to fight beside him.

Yang Tian slaughtered the Soul Emperors and fought the Blood-Clothed Cloak Man after his karma fire incapacitated six Soul Saints. The battle in Starfall Forest continued with Yang Tian testing his power against the Soul Douluo, while his companions waited anxiously for news of him.

• Yang Tian killed the remaining Soul Emperors with Amaterasu Flame, then used the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Finger against the six Soul Saints.
• Yang Tian's Lapis Lazuli Karma Fire burned through the Soul Saints' defenses and left them unable to fight, prompting the Blood-Clothed Cloak Man to awaken.
• Yang Tian attacked the Blood-Clothed Cloak Man with successive fingers, but the Soul Douluo transformed into his Blood Bone True Body and countered with Blood Bone Sky-Rending Claw.
• Yang Tian summoned the Great Desolate Imprisoning Sky Hand, and it clashed with the Blood Skull's claw as Starfall Forest trembled.
• Shui Bing'er and the others worried about Yang Tian, but the Black-Clothed Puppet reassured them that its master was fine.
• Yang Tian remained airborne with his flames intensifying as Flame Burning enhanced his strength.

Yang Tian fought Blood Skull, an Evil Soul Master, with powerful dragon techniques and a four-flame lotus that devastated Starfall Forest. The attack killed six Soul Sages but failed to kill Blood Skull, who began recovering through an unknown reserve of Bloodline Power.

• Blood Skull asked Yang Tian who he was, and Yang Tian declared that Evil Soul Masters must be slain before attacking again.
• Yang Tian’s golden dragon shattered Blood Skull’s bone shield and broke his ribs, but Blood Skull used the Blood Killing Curse to heal and greatly increase his power.
• Blood Skull unleashed his Blood Bone Life Slaughtering Blade, but Yang Tian countered it with Dragon Moves Nine Heavens and trapped him in the True Dragon Sky Trapping Art.
• Yang Tian formed a Buddha’s Wrath Fire Lotus from four flames and detonated it inside the formation, killing six Soul Sages and shaking the forest from far away.
• Yang Tian discovered that Blood Skull had survived because Grievous Soul Power extinguished the Karma Fire, and Blood Skull began rising as another surge of Bloodline Power restored him.

Yang Tian revealed that the fighter who battled the Evil Soul Master had been only an avatar, then killed the enemy with Lapis Lazuli Red Lotus Karma Fire and collected the spoils. He returned to the women, where Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er confronted him over risking his life, and Xu Xiaoxiao joined them in embracing him.

• The Evil Soul Master believed Yang Tian was gravely injured until Yang Tian revealed that his opponent had been only an avatar.
• Yang Tian burned the Evil Soul Master to ashes with Lapis Lazuli Red Lotus Karma Fire and gathered five soul bones and other rewards.
• Yang Tian used the system's theft tickets, received a Level Three Civilization Technology Inheritance, and collected various cultivation treasures.
• Yang Tian sensed pure Power of Faith rising from the surrounding land and then returned to the women.
• Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er scolded and embraced Yang Tian after learning he had risked himself, and Xu Xiaoxiao leaped into his arms for a kiss.

Yang Tian reunited with the girls, comforted Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Youyou, and kissed Huo Wu. Huo Wu kissed Shui Bing'er in retaliation, and their teasing continued as Xu Xiaoxiao eyed her sister with a sly smile.

• Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Youyou asked Yang Tian not to face danger alone again, and he promised before praising their rapid cultivation.
• Yang Tian kissed Huo Wu, who blushed and hid behind Xu Youyou after the others watched.
• Xu Youyou pushed Huo Wu back into Yang Tian's arms, and Huo Wu gradually responded to his kiss.
• Huo Wu kissed Shui Bing'er after Shui Bing'er praised how quickly she learned, leaving the others stunned.
• Shui Bing'er threatened to strip Huo Wu, and the two teased each other while Yang Tian watched.
• Xu Xiaoxiao fixed her gaze on Xu Youyou and smiled slyly.

Yang Tian returned with the women to Heaven Dou Imperial City, while Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to postpone its campaign against the Two Great Empires and hunt Evil Soul Masters instead. At an elegant inn, Yang Tian spotted a familiar lecherous figure with a beautiful woman and secretly separated from the others to investigate.

• Huo Wu surrendered to Shui Bing'er, changed clothes in the Cultivation Room, and called her Big Sister Bing'er before the group began its return journey.
• Yang Tian and the women camped in the outer region, then continued traveling after Lin Zhiling was left uncomfortable by the previous night.
• Bibi Dong heard Gui Mei's report about Evil Soul Masters and Yue Guan's update on Na Na, then ordered Spirit Hall to delay its plan against the Two Great Empires and cooperate with them to hunt Evil Soul Masters.
• A mysterious consciousness within a dark space declared that its corruption of Bibi Dong was still insufficient.
• Yang Tian received a Legendary Grade Theft Ticket and stole the Heavenly God's World-Burning Record.
• After reaching Heaven Dou Imperial City, Yang Tian spotted a familiar lecherous figure with a beautiful woman at an inn, left an incarnation with the others, and secretly appeared nearby as his true body.

Yang Tian met Flender and Liu Erlong in a tavern and teased Flender about his feelings for her while learning that Shrek Academy needed a quota for the Elite Competition. Liu Erlong offered Blue Tyrant Academy’s quota, but her longing for Grandmaster gave Yang Tian a chance to challenge her admiration for him.

• Yang Tian received a mission to help Flender win Liu Erlong’s heart and prepared a Black-Clothed Puppet with pills and spirit bones.
• Yang Tian entered the tavern, where Flender and Liu Erlong were meeting, and playfully called Liu Erlong Flender’s wife.
• Yang Tian teased Flender about his devotion to Liu Erlong, but Flender clarified that they were not romantically involved.
• Flender explained that Shrek Academy needed to borrow another academy’s quota to enter the Elite Competition, and Liu Erlong offered Blue Tyrant Academy’s place.
• Liu Erlong mentioned that she wished Grandmaster could join them, prompting Yang Tian to question Grandmaster’s knowledge and teaching credentials.

Yang Tian challenged Liu Erlong’s faith in Yu Xiaogang’s theories and used his soul rings and examples to show that they did not apply to Shrek’s gifted students. As Yang Tian left the tavern, a black-clothed Evil Soul Master attacked him, and Flender and Liu Erlong prepared to face the powerful intruder.

• Liu Erlong defended Yu Xiaogang’s wisdom, but Yang Tian questioned the originality and limits of his theories and criticized her attachment to him.
• Flender agreed that Yu Xiaogang’s soul-ring rules were wrong for Shrek’s exceptional students, and Yang Tian revealed three purple rings and one black ring.
• Yang Tian argued that Yu Xiaogang’s claim about useless Martial Souls proved little when Xiao San had innate full soul power and twin Martial Souls, then left to return when Zhu Qing and the others arrived.
• Liu Erlong told Flender to go to Blue Tyrant Academy rather than Imperial Dou to avoid humiliation over the spots.
• A black-clothed attacker struck Yang Tian into the tavern counter, and Flender and Liu Erlong released their Martial Souls as Yang Tian identified the attacker as a Titled Douluo and an Evil Soul Master.

Dean Flender and Liu Erlong were overpowered by the Black-Clothed Man, who forced pills on Liu Erlong and threatened to violate her. As Dean Flender prepared to self-destruct rather than let her suffer, a cold voice offered to save them.

• The Black-Clothed Man suppressed Dean Flender and Liu Erlong, and Yang Tian attacked with Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus before being blasted through the inn window.
• The Black-Clothed Man seized Dean Flender and Liu Erlong, then forced two pink pills into Liu Erlong's mouth.
• Dean Flender broke through the suppression and fought back with his Martial Soul Avatar, but the Black-Clothed Man slammed him into the floor.
• Liu Erlong realized her feelings for Dean Flender and confessed that she would marry him in another life, while Dean Flender vowed to take her with him in death.
• As Dean Flender prepared to self-destruct, an unseen speaker behind the Black-Clothed Man said Dean Flender would have to rely on him for rescue.

Yang Tian rescued Flender and Liu Erlong from the Black-Clothed Man using the Reverse Sky Gate, then left them in a remote mountain forest with medicine. His avatar later stayed in Heaven Dou City with his companions, while his true body had already departed.

• Yang Tian interrupted the Black-Clothed Man's attack with a four-colored Buddha's Wrath Fire Lotus, but the man suppressed it and tried to recruit him into the Holy Cult.
• Yang Tian gave Flender pills and Spirit Spring Water, sent the tavern's ordinary people outside, and opened the Reverse Sky Gate to escape with Flender and Liu Erlong.
• The Black-Clothed Man crushed the fire lotus as the gate closed, and Yang Tian left Flender and Liu Erlong on a sealed mountaintop with more pills before departing.
• Yang Tian returned to Heaven Dou City and burned his little pink pills to conceal what had happened, while his avatar brought the women to the Huang Dou Grand Hotel.
• Yang Tian told the women that his true body had already left Heaven Dou, prompting Huo Wu to head off to sleep and Yang Tian to offer the Cultivation Room.

Yang Tian learned that Qian Renxue had left the Imperial Palace to find him and hurried to the Huang Dou Grand Hotel, where she reunited with him. He introduced her to the five girls already with him, and Qian Renxue asked him to introduce them.

• Yang Tian sent the Black-Clothed Puppet to the Imperial Palace, where Snake Lance Douluo told it that Qian Renxue had left for the Huang Dou Grand Hotel.
• Yang Tian told the five girls that Qian Renxue was coming, then left the Cultivation Room to meet her.
• Qian Renxue arrived at the hotel and embraced Swordsman, not realizing he was Yang Tian's avatar.
• Yang Tian revealed his true body, and Qian Renxue left the avatar to throw herself into his arms.
• Qian Renxue met the five girls and asked Yang Tian to introduce them.

Yang Tian introduced Qian Renxue to his other women, who welcomed her and learned about her exceptional talent and rapid cultivation. The next morning, he gave Qian Renxue a restorative pill, while Liu Erlong regained more than half her consciousness and Flender continued passionately.

• Yang Tian told the women that Qian Renxue had been the mysterious Soul King who challenged him in Fire Cloud City, and introduced her to Huo Wu and the others.
• Lin Zhiling and the other women welcomed Qian Renxue, and Yang Tian revealed that she had Innate Level Twenty talent and had reached Level Sixty-Seven.
• Yang Tian urged Qian Renxue to slow her cultivation so she could protect her foundation, while she admitted she still wanted revenge on him.
• That night, Yang Tian and Qian Renxue were intimate in the Cultivation Room, and she complained that he was bullying her.
• The next day, Yang Tian brought Qian Renxue a tonic pill, and she hid under the covers until he explained what it was.
• In the wilderness, Liu Erlong regained more than half her consciousness while Flender continued passionately.

Yang Tian left Qian Renxue’s palace after promising to help clear Heaven Dou’s obstacles, then visited Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City as Swordsman. Hu Liena learned he had arrived and hurried to meet him, while Zhang San and Li Si watched jealously.

• Liu Erlong accepted Flender’s promise to care for and love her, and the two continued their intimacy.
• Yang Tian spent the night with Qian Renxue, promised to help her with Heaven Dou’s obstacles, and gave Snake Lance Douluo a soul bone before leaving the palace.
• Yang Tian arrived at Spirit Hall in Heaven Dou City and asked the guards to announce Swordsman’s visit.
• Hu Liena learned that Swordsman was waiting in the guest hall and rushed to visit him.
• Zhang San and Li Si saw Hu Liena’s eagerness to meet Swordsman and felt jealous.

Yang Tian reunited with Hu Liena at Spirit Hall and agreed to treat her to a meal, teasing her as she blushed and accepted his invitation. Zhang San and Li Si blocked their way, and Yang Tian pulled Hu Liena into his arms after they warned him to let her go.

• Hu Liena learned that Salas had blocked the message about Yang Tian and hurried to meet him at Spirit Hall.
• Hu Liena told Yang Tian she had come to Heaven Dou City as an inspector for the Elite Competition, and the system gave him a mission to treat her to a meal.
• Yang Tian teased Hu Liena, then took her hand and led her toward the exit to get food together.
• Zhang San and Li Si stopped them, claiming they needed to protect Hu Liena, while she denounced Salas for blocking her information.
• Zhang San and Li Si ordered Yang Tian to let Hu Liena go, and Yang Tian pulled her into his arms and asked if that counted as touching her.

Yang Tian took Hu Liena to a private café, where he kissed and teased her before stopping when she set a boundary. He admitted that he liked her but had not fallen in love with her yet, and Hu Liena confessed that she had liked him since he saved her and vowed they would make each other fall in love.

• Yang Tian pulled Hu Liena away from Zhang San and Li Si and led her to a private room in a café.
• Yang Tian teased Hu Liena about expecting a kiss, then kissed her and pulled her onto his lap.
• Hu Liena stopped Yang Tian from going further, and Yang Tian asked when they could try again.
• Yang Tian told Hu Liena he liked her but had not fallen in love with her yet.
• Hu Liena confessed that she had liked Yang Tian since he saved her and said they would make each other fall in love.

Yang Tian returned Hu Liena to Spirit Hall, then faced the jealousy of Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er over his new relationship with her. He went to Blue Tyrant Academy to surprise Zhu Qing and Rong Rong, but arrived in the middle of a confrontation involving Flender, Grandmaster, Tang San, and Xiao Wu.

• Yang Tian kissed Hu Liena goodbye at Spirit Hall and promised to visit her when he had time.
• Yang Tian returned to the hotel, where Lin Zhiling and Shui Bing'er confronted him for spending time with Hu Liena, and the women agreed to give him only one floor of rooms for his companions.
• Yang Tian left the Black-Clothed Puppet to protect the girls and headed to Blue Tyrant Academy to surprise Zhu Qing and Rong Rong.
• Yang Tian overheard Tang San accusing Flender of betraying Grandmaster, while Xiao Wu urged Flender to explain himself.
• Tang San declared that he and Xiao Wu would leave Shrek with Grandmaster, as Flender pleaded with Grandmaster not to let the dispute affect the students.

Yang Tian returned and confronted Tang San and Grandmaster over their accusations against Flender, exposing Grandmaster’s long absence from Liu Erlong’s life. Tang San backed away from Grandmaster as Yang Tian defended Flender, leaving their conflict unresolved.

• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong refused to leave with Tang San, while Dai Mubai urged Tang San and Grandmaster to hear Flender’s side.
• Yang Tian appeared and rebuked Tang San for judging Flender without knowing the full story; Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong welcomed him back.
• Yang Tian recalled how he had met Flender and Liu Erlong in Heaven Dou and challenged Grandmaster over abandoning Liu Erlong for twenty years.
• Yang Tian defended Flender’s devotion and sacrifice, while Tang San quietly moved away from Grandmaster.

Xiao Wu confessed that she loved Yang Tian, not Tang San, and asked Yang Tian to stop trying to match them together. Yang Tian accepted her feelings and embraced her, leaving the two of them happily kissing and clinging to each other.

• After Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong teased Xiao Wu about Tang San, Xiao Wu told Yang Tian she did not like Tang San and had been keeping her distance from him.
• Xiao Wu ran away in tears, and Zhu Zhuqing urged Yang Tian to chase her while Ning Rongrong asked whether she or Xiao Wu had come first.
• Yang Tian found Xiao Wu at the end of a secluded path and asked whether she hated him for pushing her toward Tang San.
• Xiao Wu asked whether Yang Tian would push her away again and confessed that she liked him; Yang Tian nodded and pulled her into his embrace.
• Xiao Wu kissed Yang Tian and wrapped herself around him, delighted that she had finally gotten her way.

Yang Tian was caught between Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong, who both insisted on being with him, and the three went to a hotel suite in Heaven Dou City. As Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu prepared in the bathroom, Yang Tian considered his plans to keep his identities and relationships separate.

• Xiao Wu confessed that she wanted to be with Yang Tian before Ning Rongrong, and Ning Rongrong challenged her claim to go first.
• Ning Rongrong insisted that Yang Tian keep his promise despite her father’s possible disapproval, then invited Xiao Wu to join them.
• Yang Tian, Ning Rongrong, and Xiao Wu went to the Huang Dou Grand Hotel, where Ning Rongrong booked them the best room.
• In the suite, Yang Tian considered concealing that he was Swordsman and keeping his women from appearing together as he planned to gain control of Heaven Dou.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu entered the bathroom, where Xiao Wu nervously asked if they were really going to be with Yang Tian and Ning Rongrong said she would go first.